In many areas worldwide, there are those who wish to inject their religion into their government.

Laws, punishments, etc., must follow their religious teachings. Any who don’t follow the correct sect of the proper religion are persecuted. Democratic governments are toppled by those minorities — who then force their beliefs on the rest of the population.

The most radical of these are the recently converted. They will do anything in the name of their religion. They blindly follow their religious leaders who cherry-pick what they wish to teach from their holy writings.

No one is allowed to question their beliefs. No one else’s beliefs matter. These are heresy, put forth by the unclean infidels. I’m not referring exclusively to the Middle East.

Closer to home, in Kentucky, I wonder what county clerk Kim Davis’ viewpoint would be if she had been denied marriage licenses to husbands No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 by a Catholic clerk because of her divorce from husband No. 1 and adultery with husband No. 3?

Would Davis agree that the religion of the clerk trumped her beliefs?

Steve Brown Sr.

Oakley

Brown two-faced is on the environment

“Not-so-green” Gov. Jerry Brown is two-faced toward the environment.

In 2013, he got public-relations lauds for a pact with Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to cut pollution, which causes global warming. A day later. Environmentalists castigated him for supporting expanded California fracking, which pollutes air, water and soil.

Was his agenda to pay off special interests for their financial or political support? The same potential winners joined the promotional band here as with the bullet train or tunnels projects and used their muscle to fight county ballot measures against fracking.

SB 4 requires that fracking companies must obtain a permit, do groundwater testing, and reveal what chemicals they hope to use. In February 2015, California was facing scrutiny for breaching federal law by allowing over 2,000 permits for injection drilling while “bypassing some federally mandated environmental reviews.”

In 2011, Brown fired oil and gas supervisors Derek Chernow and Elena Miller of the California Department of Conservation (To please Occidental Oil?) under the guise of “speeding up the permit process.” Now landowners have grounds to sue the state.

Jan Howe

San Ramon

Kim Davis would not disobey God’s Word

Biblical events are presently taking place in our country. In the early church, followers of Jesus Christ were imprisoned for their beliefs.

A Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk, Kim Davis, has been jailed for carrying out her beliefs. She has refused to disobey God, by not accommodating what God calls sin. As a Christian who believes in the Bible, Davis cannot violate her beliefs and be party to what God, who is the ultimate judge, strongly forbids.

Her constitutional right of freedom to practice her faith has been violated. We are treading on very dangerous ground in our country.

It’s time to wake up, America, before it’s too late. “It’s a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31.

Mary Christ

Walnut Creek

Calmness is needed in police encounters

People having confrontations with police officers in their communities are usually happen because they get upset and are abusive with the officers.

At times they put their hands on the officers or won’t cooperate with their instructions. The confrontation can escalate into a brawl.

If people would just be calm, the incident might even be solved without an arrest. Otherwise, take the matter up with the judge. The police are here to serve and protect the community. They are not anxious to make arrests, as some people believe.

Charles Whaley

Pinole

Do not forget Hippocratic Oath

I wish to respond to the Sept. 9 article, “Right-to-die bill moves ahead.” Because of the violent and contradictory age in which we live and in our haste to help those who are temporarily depressed or who have been made to believe they can no longer contribute to society because of their mental or physical state, have we forgotten the Hippocratic Oath?

“I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.”